Prep Time: 40 min.
Wow your guests this holiday season with a delicious Feta Cucumber Christmas Tree.
Nothing is wasted, as the cutouts you have from the cucumber are reused as little presents to go under the tree.
If you are short on time, make a few bites and place them on a cocktail stick with basil. Yum.
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber
- 300 grams feta
- 5 yellow cherry tomatoes
- 1 yellow pepper
- fresh basil
- sea salt
- pepper
- small square-shaped cookie cutter
- star-shaped cookie cutter
Instructions
1 Cut slices of cucumber. Make sure they are approximately the same width.
2. Use the square cutter to make a hole in the center of the cucumber slices.
3. Now, cut square pieces of feta, and place these into the cucumber.
4. Assemble the feta and cucumber pieces in the shape of a tree.
5. Arrange the basil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
6. Halve the cherry tomatoes and top as baubles.
7. Make a star out of yellow pepper and place it at the top.
8. Slice some feta for the trunk.
9. Use the remaining cucumber squares to make little gifts to place under the tree.
10. You can slice cucumber peel strips to make the gift ribbon.
11. Serve.
Notes
The cookie cutters are part of a set and linked in my Shop.
